Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm. Biography. A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years.
J.D. Jed Clampett, usually called Jed Clampett, is the apparent patriarch of the family with his mother-in-law Granny, nephew Jethro, and daughter Elly May. Although he had received little formal education, Jed Clampett has a good deal of common sense. He is a good-natured man and a widower. Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died but is referred to in the episode Duke Steals A Wife as Rose Ellen. He is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister named Myrtle. He attended Ozark Elementary.